Something to Sidetalk About · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 22, 2005 @05:29AM from the adventures-in-poor-design dept.

nigelthezebra writes "The N-Gage is at it again, what with the news that the price is being dropped and that the redesigned handheld is going to be redesigned again. In "Something to Sidetalk About," AllRPG.com's Richard Goodness recounts his experiences with the N-Gage QD. To put a long story short, it's very obvious why the system is failing. When you can't even figure out how to turn something on, you know it's time to go back to the drawing board." From the article: "I've always been a big proponent of the axiom, when in doubt, see if Mr. Casual can do it. Games ought not to need big instruction booklets. They should be simple enough to figure out by picking up and fiddling for a moment or two. Turning a system on, that goes without saying."

1 of 49 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:AllRPG? Boy, you'll take anything from anywhere by nigelthezebra · 2005-03-22 06:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I wouldn't be so cynical as all that. I'm more worried about getting my stuff read; boosting site traffic didn't even cross my mind in the sense that you're thinking of. (If you had problems with the site in the past and knew about that, why'd you visit it in the first place? One would think you were falling for my gran scheme yourself.)